Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed: with His Character Drawn Chiefly from His WorksJ. Bohn, 1838 - 306 Seiten |
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... possibly to make the disbelief of his having been there far more difficult than the belief . But he was not solely a dramatist . He has left us a volume of poems , among which are numerous Sonnets , wholly descriptive of events which ...
... possibly to make the disbelief of his having been there far more difficult than the belief . But he was not solely a dramatist . He has left us a volume of poems , among which are numerous Sonnets , wholly descriptive of events which ...
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... possibly he might became possessor of a remark- able house there , as part of her portion ; and jointly with his wife convey it as part of their daughter Judith's portion to Thomas Queeny . It is certain that one Queeny , an elderly ...
... possibly he might became possessor of a remark- able house there , as part of her portion ; and jointly with his wife convey it as part of their daughter Judith's portion to Thomas Queeny . It is certain that one Queeny , an elderly ...
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... My brain has been , at all times , more puzzled by those gentlemen than by the subject under discus- sion ; owing , possibly , to their minds being chiefly intent on dates , verbal researches , and excessive con- HIS SONNETS . 389.
... My brain has been , at all times , more puzzled by those gentlemen than by the subject under discus- sion ; owing , possibly , to their minds being chiefly intent on dates , verbal researches , and excessive con- HIS SONNETS . 389.
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... Possibly there were several of the nobility of the time who conferred that honour on themselves . We cer- tainly know of two others , William , Earl of Pembroke , and Philip , his brother , earl of Montgomery , to both of whom Heminge ...
... Possibly there were several of the nobility of the time who conferred that honour on themselves . We cer- tainly know of two others , William , Earl of Pembroke , and Philip , his brother , earl of Montgomery , to both of whom Heminge ...
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... possibly of the second poem also , together with that to his mistress , when the young nobleman had reached the age of eighteen , if Meres noticed them the year when they were written , or of seventeen , if they were a year old when ...
... possibly of the second poem also , together with that to his mistress , when the young nobleman had reached the age of eighteen , if Meres noticed them the year when they were written , or of seventeen , if they were a year old when ...
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Seite 152 - take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength." A hunting squire would by no means despise the conversation about hounds in the
Seite 86 - O for my sake, do thou with fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than public means, which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then.
Seite 174 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell I That my keen knife see not the wound it makes; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold .'" The learned lexicographer first finds fault with the word dun, because
Seite 264 - and his practical morality took two opposite roads. It is spoken by one of the young lords, while they are canvassing the conduct of Bertram: " The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults
Seite 63 - Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown farther. Go, release them, Ariel.
Seite 188 - At a fair Vestal, throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden-meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 30 - of Shakespeare as a dramatist, his words are these: " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among the Latins; so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Loves
Seite 149 - Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ?" In addition to what I have said of the great study requisite to the formation of Shakespeare's works, the probability that, when a lad, he attempted to adapt Seneca's tragedies, or that he imitated them
Seite 61 - O benefit of ill! now I find true That better is by evil still made better; And ruin'd love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. So I return rebuked to my content, And gain by ill, thrice more than I have spent.